"Maritime salvage is an integral part of the safety of Australia's mariners and the maritime transport industry. This report follows 'Ship Safe', and 'Ships of Shame' in a series of reports that the committee has carried out with the safety and efficiency of Australia's maritime transport sector in mind...This report focuses on Australia's salvage capability; a capability that Australia must have in order to safeguard its national security, economic and environmental wellbeing. The Committee has made recommendations in this report relating to the assessment of strategic placement of salvage tugs, the revenue needed to support salvage capability, maintaining salvage standards, the development of a national salvage plan and the provision of salvage related training." -- p. [v].
Home from the Mid-East killing fields, Navy veteran Jack Slocum just wants a place to catch his breath.
... where certain illicit activities were ' socially embedded ' and enjoyed some ' social legitimacy'.24 Beverly Lemire's Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures : The Material Word Remade , c.1500-1820 ( Cambridge ...
The 1948 rescue of the Liberty ship Leicester is chronicled in vivid detail--a story that takes readers through two hurricanes before the crew is finally rescued. Reprint.
Marine Salvage
Marine Salvage in the United States
Maritime Law of Salvage
This edition demonstrates how salvage law applies to the complex situations which arise from shipping operations.
Spellbound by the folklore, the author writes a story of adventure, history and underwater archaeology which is also the tale of two men separated by almost 300 years yet united by a common obsession.